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HOOK FOR WEARING APPAREL, WINDOW GURTAINS, 850w No. 445,893.Pate11tedFeb.3, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY HUTOHINSON AND FRANK MADGIN, OF NElVGASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ASSIGNORS TOJAMES CLEMENT NElVEY, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

HOOK FOR WEARING-APPAREL, WINDOW-CURTAINS, 840.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 445,893, dated February3, 1891.

Application filed June 2, 1890. Serial No. 353,912. (No model.) Patentedin England March 22.1889, No. 4,985.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY HUTOHINSON and FRANK MADGIN, engineers, bot-hsubjects of the Queen of Great Britain, the former residing at 59Campbell Street, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, England, and the latter at 109Addison Road, Heaton, N ewcastleupon-Tyne, England, have inventedcertain Improvements in Hooks for earing-Apparel, lVindow-Ourtains,XVat-clrChains, and other Analogous Articles (for which we have obtainedLetters Patent in Great Britain, No. 4,985, hearing date March 22,1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of hooks wherein an elastic tongue-piece having an outward bend projects beneath the bill of the hook, asin Letters Patent No. 8,198, dated July 1, 1851.

The objects of ourinvention are to improve the prior construction, torender the tonguepiece more elastic and effective in operation,

and to so construct the tongue-piece that its main body portion liesapproximately in a plane with the flat bill of the hook in such manneras to largely reduce the liability of portions of the dress or garmentscatchingin the point or extremity of the bill, while at the same timethe tongue-piece is so shaped and constructed as to overhang the baseportion of the hook, and thereby provide an increased spring action,whereby the tongue can more freely yield in the engagement anddisengagement of the ordinary eye.

To such end our invention consists in a hook for gaiments and otherarticles, consisting of a strip of metal formed into aflat base andhaving each end portion uniformly curved outward and extended toward theopposite end portion in approximately the same plane to form a flattenedbill and a freelyyielding tongue piece, which underlies the bill and isformed with a pair of reverse bends, one of which projects outwardly andbears against the under side of the flattened bill, while the other oneprojects inwardly and is located directly beneath and coincident withthe extremity of the bill in such manner as to provide an enteringthroatway to the bill of the hook and at the same time place the mainbody of the tongue approximately in the same plane with the bill, bywhich means the liability of portions of the dress or garments catchingin the free end of the bill is largely reduced, if not entirely avoided.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of ourimproved hook constructed from a flatstrip of sheet metal. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of the hook con structed from wire, and Fig. at is. a topplan view 01": the same.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use ourinvention, we will now describe the same in detail, referring to thedrawings, wherein- The numeral 1 indicates the horizontal base of theimproved hook, which is composed of a strip of metal having each endportion uniformly-curved outward, as at 2, and extended rectilinearlytoward the opposite end portion, thereby forming the flattened hook-bill3 and the freely-yielding tongue-piece 4, the construction andarrangement being such that the flattened bill overlies the free endportion of the tongue, while the main body of the latter is inapproximately the same plane as the plane of the bill 3.

The uniform curve 2, by which the strip of metal is formed into thetongue-piece 4, provides the requisite means for imparting to thetongue-piece increased elasticity or spring action and renders itsusceptible of promptly responding to the pressure of the ordinary eye,which is to be engaged with or disengaged from the hook. The end portionof the tongue-piece is formed with two reverse bends 5 and 6, and theextremity of the tongue-piece is pendent, as at 7, in such manner thatwhen the ton gue-piece is depressed by undue pressure of the usual eyein its engagement with or disengagement from the hook such pendentportion 7 will strike the horizontal base 1 of the hook, and therebyprevent the ton gue piece from being overstrained.

The bend 5 projects outward and rests against the under side of theflattened hill 3, while the bend 6 projects inwardly and is locateddirectly beneath and in coincidence with the extremity of the bill. 3,so asto form an entering throatway 8 for the passage of the ordinary eyeagainst the bend 5, and at the same time the inwardly-projecting bend 6fulfills the conditions required to place the main body portion of thetongue-piece 4 in approximately the same plane as the flattened bill 3.

In Figs. 3 and at the construction is substantially the same asdescribed with reference to Figs. 1 and 2,with the exception that thehook is-composed of a strip of wire suitably bent and fashioned intoshape and extended laterally at its base portion 1 to form theneedle-holes 9, whereby the hook can be stitched to the garment or otherarticle.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the hook is made of sheet metal and the needle-holes 9are formed by punching the base portion 1 of the sheet-m etal plate.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is A hook fiorgarments and other articles, con.-

sisting of astrip of metal having each end portion uniformly curvedoutward and extended toward the opposite end portion to provide the fiatbill 3 and the overhanging elastic tongue 4, having its main bodyportion in approximately the same plane as the plane of the flattenedbill and formed at its free end portion with two reverse bends 5 and 6,one of which projects outwardly and is adapted to bear against the underside of the bill, while the other bend projectsinward to form anentering throatway, substantially as described.

Dated this 0th day of May, 1890.

HENRY HUTOHINSON. FRANK MADGIN.

Witnesses:

T. D. FENWICK, Solicitor, N ewcastZe-upon-Tync.

A. B. GOLDSBROUGH, N0. 3 Dean Street, Newcasile-upon-llz ne, S0-

Zicitors Clerk.

